decticus

Updated: May 11, 2025

One point alone is missing, a most important point: the long persistence of a remnant of life. In fact, on the fourth day, the Decticus is dead; her dark colour tells me so. There are two conclusions to be drawn from this experiment and it is well to emphasise them.

Jean-Henri Fabre - Bramble-Bees and Others

The Decticus surrenders only to a single exploit of love; a victim of its "strange genesics"; utterly exhausted by the first embrace, empty, drained, extenuated, motionless in all its members, utterly worn out, it quickly succumbs, a mere broken simulacrum, like the miserable lover of a monstrous succubus who "loves him enough to devour him."

Georges Victor Legros - Fabre, Poet of Science